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LETTERS

I came across something while reading my copy of Newsweex for June 11 under Sports that, in the parlance of the marines, “snows” me. Your correspondent relates that fishing expeditions in the Southwest Pacific are car- ried out. with dynamite or grenades and various types of food, which in two places he refers to as “chum.” During my three and a half years in the service, I have heard any. thing edible referred to by a number of names, but I confess that my military edu. cation must have been rather sadly neglected, because to.me the word “chum” has always meant a friend. Admittedly, food is an ex- ceptionally good friend, but I am wondering if there might not have been a double typo. graphical error in the column.

Prc. D. D. Know es Jr. Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Webster defines “chum” as chopped fish, lobsters, or the Uke, thrown overboard to draw fish. According to NEWSWEEK’s story, “chow” like “cons of mixed vegetables, corned beef, hash, and sausage” makes good

“chum” too. Rank Discrimination

In comparison with the other abomina- tions of the war the following may be unim- portant. It is not, however, to many of us so minuscule that a little airing of the matter might not prove generally salutory.

A few weeks ago in Manila a very lovely Spanish girl was asked te join a party at a local night club as the guest of a technical sergeant in the engineers. The young lady refused on the ground that she “couldn’t af- ford to be seen with an enlisted man.”

It happens that this enlisted man was a well-educated man (B.A., LL.B.) and had had a successful law practice in the States, is a book collector and a minor authority on James Joyce; in short, a man quite accept- able from ariy reasonable @ivilian standpoint. That girl, like so many of her American brothers and sisters, has developed an atti- tude which has become pretty damned an- noying to many of us—that is, considering ; rank as an almost absolute criterion of ac- ceptability, social and otherwise, and adopt- ing a pseudo-kindly, but definitely patron- izing attitude toward the GI.

If the distinctions drawn were only social the implications might be merely inconven- ient, but many of these topnotch men are coming back to civilian life worried that the personnel men may be more interested ,in what rank the jobseeker held in the Army than in what he can do.

Let’s get our standards back to normal.

SERVICEMAN’s NAME WITHHELD

c/o Postmaster

San Francisco, Calif.

The American Farmer

I wish to commend you for the very fine picture of the “American Farmer” on the front cover of your July 2 issue. The wrinkles

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WHEN THE THERMOMETER SOARS, and humidity soaks the air, all sorts of trouble seem to set in. People are uncomfortable, irri- tableand short tempered . . . their efficiency sags. Even your own secretary usually cool, calm - collected gets hot, bothered . and uncollected!

The customers in retail stores shrink from crowds to couples.

The productive output of many industries is handicapped because manufacturing processes are af- fected by the excesses of heat and moisture.

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The conversion of steel sheets into sturdy drums for the safe, economical packaging and shipment of vital replace- ment parts and an ever-increasing variety of manufactured products other than the familiar liquids — gasoline, oil, chemicals — is another of those service- able applications of this most versatile of our metals that has contributed might- ily to the winning of the war and that holds such useful promise in the peace- ful world before us.

Skilled men manning machines of ingenious design carry this operation through from flat steel sheets to finished drums at a pace that would make the old-time cooper blink with amazement. By the millions, steel drums, barrels, other containers come off the lines of the J&L Steel Barrel Company and other barrel plants. Here is production of hand- made quality with machine speed; the steady rhythm of progress that is a sym- bol of American ingenuity and enterprise.

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“Canning” airplane engines for shipment is

‘becoming commonplace practice. Starters,

generators, instruments and cylinders are among the items now packed with desic- cants in hermetically sealed steel drums to afford complete protection against break- age, dust and moisture during shipment by sea or air, or storage in transit. This new technique, developed by J&L Steel Barrel Company with Air Technical Service Com- mand, has become of increasing military importance, now that total war has moved into the salt-laden humidity and heat of the Pacific climate, which, overnight, breeds sporadic growths of fungi and mildews.

Other “canned” war items for which J&L Steel Barrel Company has made special con- tainers are bagged powder, smoke pots, 75mm. shells, The barrel company also de- veloped a large, smokeless powder box and produced them in quantity. Bomb fins and bomb fin crates are other war products of J &L barrel plants in addition to their regular line of products.

Mortar shell program was speeded by J&L Steel Barrel Company’s development of new mass production precision technique for making base discs for 4.2-inch mortar shells, at half cost of handmade discs.

Army chapel seats, oil drums with planks laid across them, in a tent, held many per- sonnel on the European Front, until the boys built a church with salvaged materials, wrote Maj. J. H. Cook to LIFE magazine.

Empty drums for Gl bathtubs are popular in S. Pacific, also for heating stoves and, locked end to end, as storm culverts,

How to retain glycerine, which has a genius for seeping out of tightest coopered wooden barrel, was answered about 1906 by appear- ance in Europe of a steel barrel built along bulgy lines of familiar wooden barrel. Amer- ican petroleum industry, with products having a highly seepy nature, was quick to adopt new container. But the bulge or “bilge” shaped barrel soon had a formidable rival, the drum type barrel, with straight sides, embossed hoops, to strengthen and make rolling easier.

Demand for “one-trippers,” or containers that need not be returned, opened wide a door to endless new uses for the light-weight, inexpensive steel drum, as the bilge type steel barrel must be made of heavy steel to maintain its barrel-like contours.

Barrels from strip mills, as well as from for- ests, from steel barrel plants, as well as from cooperage shops is the course barrels have traversed in 40 years. Today barrels made of steel sheets are produced with spe- cial presses and machinery (see illustration), as against the method of skilled coopers, building each barrel by hand. J&L Steel Batrel Company has plants of most modern type in Bayonne, Cleveland, Kansas City, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Philadelphia

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and worried look on his face express very forcefully the farmers’ concern about their No. 1 problem of 1945 . . . the weather. Rev, J. E. Brewer St. George, Kans. O-we-go, Ow-kay!

I would like to point out that Wac Cpl. Margaret Hastings, “Shangri-la Queen,” is not, as reported {( NEWswEEK, July 9), from Oswego, N. Y., but Owego, N.Y. You will

- appreciate, and so will Owego, that credit should be given where credit is due. Mrs. Geo. WHEELER

Endicott, N. Y.

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GI Bill for Merchant Seamen?

Merchant Seaman Morales’s plea in your aid | issue of July 9 (Letters) for inclusion in the et si a _ GI Bill of Rights is not without merit.

Conversely, however, equity would de- | mand each member of the armed forces be | granted the rights and privileges of the mer- chant marine embracing civilian status, com- Fewer Marlboros for you perhaps mensurate salaries, an eight-hour day, over-

time, and area and combat bonuses. ... but more for the boys.

Lt. (j.c.) A. W. Wiitias, U.S.N.R.

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ROM NOW ON, we're going to find the Devil constantly at our elbow. He'll be tempting us to consult our own pleasure and convenience each time we’re faced with questions like these:

“Is it really a life-or-death matter to some youngster if I skip an appoint- ment to give blood ?”

**Is it still necessary to keep on buy- ing War Bonds with every spare cent?”

**Is it honestly vital that I stick to my job, drive slowly, stay off trains,

A aeitleman we'll be mecling often, how

save fuel and paper, and support the rationing program?”

Thrusting Satan sternly behind us isn’t going to be easy.

But, all of us can make it easier by realizing this: if we let up now, we can actually prolong the war. °

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thority concerning the personnel of such ships.

In Newsweex of July 9, one José A. Morales speaks of the “inequity our merchant marine is receiving by being utterly left out of the GI Bill of Rights.” My question is: Why should they feel they should have any share in it?

Their usual comeback to such a question is: The United States Merchant Marine has lost a greater percentage of men per thou- sand than any branch of service. This is true. But may I ask why the percentage is so high? The answer is that they wanted to take such risks so that they could cash in on the “big money” that was being paid in bonuses, port calls, raids on their ship, and bombings. No one made them take such ships—they asked for them, so that they. could make plenty of

money, which. many did, and others lost’

their lives.

The usual merchant marine that “sacri- ficed” his education to participate in this war did so when the draft board started breath- ing down his neck!

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He’s still in a construction gang...but doing a different job under different conditions...clearing jungles, smooth- ing air strips on coral atolls, building revetments for planes. _

High-pressure hose puts the strength of a giant into his

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To achieve this useful teaming of rubber and steel, long and patient effort had to come first. United States Rubber Company technicians—chemists, engineers, craftsmen — coordinated their skills, focussed them on his needs.

SERVING THROUGH SCIENCE

By serving through science, they gave these fighting builders —the Army Corps of Engineers and the doughty Seabees— hose capable of withstanding highest working pressures, of resisting the effects of jungle heat and arctic cold.

The backlog of experience needed for such servicewas laid in the years before 1941. It takes a big business to meet such needs. But a business only grows big because people like its products. When you bought “U.S.” rubber products in the past, you were creating work for men and women. You helped build this company—helped give it force.

That force is still backing our fighting men. It will con- tinue to do so until the Pacific victory is secured. Sea- soned and strengthened then by its intensive wartime

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ITS MERITS WOULD BE. A GREATER TRAGEDY THAN THE PASSAGE OF THE PROHIBITION LAW DURING THE LAST WAR PERIOD IT IS HOPED THAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ATTEN. TION OF THE PUBLIC THE. MANY OBVIOUS REASONS WHY ANY CON. ‘SIDERATION BY CONGRESS OF LEG. ISLATION OF THIS NATURE SHOULD BE DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE PEACE PERIOD INASMUCH AS CON. TINUATION OF THE PRESENT DRAFT LAW WILL MEET ALL MILITARY DE. MANDS DURING THE WAR AND THE IMMEDIATE PERIOD FOLLOWING IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND ANY REASON FOR RUSHING LEGISLATION ON A MEASURE THAT MAY WELL CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF OUR NATION WITHOUT AT LEAST ASCERTAINING WHAT TODAYS SOLDIER BELIEVES THE WISEST COURSE FOR HIS COUN. TRY TO FOLLOW

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@ The one fundamental question behind all arguments for or against conscription should never be overlooked. It is: Can America pro- tect herself after the war without conscrip- tion? Speaking as realists, there can only be one answer to that question: NO.

War is not quite so evil and vicious a thing as is the unpreparedness of a nation for that war. With all due respect to a world security organization, which we must also have, an unprepared. America in the world - of the future would be the greatest irony of * all history.

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15 Gusute Own Cameron » Highlanders of Canada, now NEwswEex’s Canadian Ed- itor. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Thompson went into the army in 1940, spent nineteen months in Eng- land preparing for the Hitler invasion which never came, and landed on Dieppe on Aug. 19, 1942. John was one of the men who didn’t get back on schedule from that ill-fated raid. After leading his men 2 miles inland, he was wounded (left eye lost) and taken prisoner. He spent the next 25 months in German hos- pitals and prison camps.

A Toronto and Winnipeg newspa- per reporter tured infantry officer, Thompson has _re- tained some vivid impressions of his long years in Nazi jands. His memories of fellow hospital in- mates give a strong taste of the stuff of which Canadians are made. At frequent intervals, the men used to plot various methods of escape, but were always hes- . itant because of the brutal reprisals threatened to those prisoners who _re- mained. Yet the boys who were most en-

thusiastic about others escaping were the totally blind.

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For his own diversion and that of his countrymen, Thompson wrote, di- rected, and produced a play in the prison hospital. The men staged several original shows, but the one John remembers best a called “Snow White and the Seven

s” (repatriatees). The seven “dwarfs” wees played by one-legged soldiers and they stopped the show with a chorus dance in Rockette precision.

In his weekly coverage of events affecting Canada’s politics, business trends, and daily life, Thompson has fre- quent occasion to think back on the men with whom he sweated out the war. To him, they represent a nation which, a few short years ago, carried little weight internationally, but which today is a world power, politically and economical- ly. From the daily papers of the major cities in each province; from correspond- ents in every capital city; and from his large number of personal friends in Can- ada, John Thompson. and his staff write for NEwswWEEK readers the story of a people to whom we owe appreciation, friendship, and, above all, understanding.

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